Christmas' eve

it has been a good year, 2012. and we wishes for another best year yet for next year, 2013. God has been good to all of us and we are delighted that we have done all our best. Life is full of ups and downs. we have been in the darkest valley and also highest mountain top. those feelings are hard to described and we have to thank God for his grace and goodness as well. we wishes all the best.

the world

The world we seen is the world we created in our mind.

the agony

there are certain things best not to talk about it. the recent incident on 19th Sept and 25th Sept 2012 are something that we will remembered for life as we are too self-centered. especially the latter date. we thought of ourselves and we have asked people about it. now we knew. when people slept in that room, and we are forced to rest elsewhere and being caught, the first thing that came to our mind that they have harmed us. instead, after much thoughts and pondering, we are at fault: there are other places that we have the keys! alas.

You didn't build that

You didn't build that" is a phrase from an election campaign speech delivered by President Barack Obama on July 13, 2012 in Roanoke, Virginia

On a campaign swing through Virginia, Obama stopped in Roanoke to speak to supporters.
In his remarks Obama noted that while he was willing to cut government waste, he would not gut investments that grow the economy or give tax breaks to millionares like himself or Mitt Romney. Obama went on to say that rich people did not get rich solely due to their own talent and hard work, but that, to varying degrees, they owe some of their success to good fortune and the contributions of government. Obama said in this context:
There are a lot of wealthy, successful Americans who agree with me – because they want to give something back. They know they didn’t – look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something – there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. (Applause.)
If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.
The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together. There are some things, just like fighting fires, we don’t do on our own. I mean, imagine if everybody had their own fire service. That would be a hard way to organize fighting fires.
Obama then cited the funding of the G.I. Bill, the creation of the middle class, the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge and Hoover Dam, inventing the Internet, and landing on the moon as examples of what he was talking about.

singaporean unemployed while foreigners working

we have ourselves to blame, and no one else.
no one owned you a living!

1 in 2 people in Singapore being either a foreigner or permanent resident.

As of December 2011, Singapore’s total population stands at 5.26 million, of which, 2 million or 38 per cent are permanent residents (0.54 million) and non-residents (1.46 million), which largely consist of work permit holders. There are currently 3.27 million Singapore citizens. That works out to roughly 1 in 2 people in Singapore being either a foreigner or permanent resident.

contented

never in my life be contented with what i have.
truly blessed and counted myself and my sisters and brother as well.
we are fortunate.
the most important things in life is family.
it is true.

For the last 20 years productivity in USA has been rising and real wages has remain stagnant

Lets get this very clear. Low wage workers are lowly paid not because of globalisation or technology. Our low wage workers are the lowest paid in the developed world as a result of the massive foreign influx in the last 10 years. Yet on Labour Day the PAP message to workers is they have to get their productivity up first before wages rise. Our workers have been underpaid for the current productivity level due to PAP policies. When the income gap, structural unemployment and low wage problems showed up a decade ago, the PAP insisted that skills upgrading and retraining was the solution to these problems - under these programs low wage workers were retrained to do one low wage job after another. After one decade of applying the wrong remedy, they now claim that increasing productivity is the key. However, we know this is not true, in the US where productivity has been increasing there was no corresponding increase in wages due to the wage-productivity gap. The increased productivity simply went to raising profit margins and CEO salaries. Singapore workers have far less power than Americans to bargain for better wages when productivity goes up because of the foreign influx. Also, as long as companies have access to cheap foreign labour, there is little incentive to improve productivity. I'm certain, based on the current set of policies, we are going to waste another decade and hundreds of thousands of low wage workers will continue to struggle in the coming years. Lets get this clear : the large foreign influx of the last 10 years was not about maintaining our workforce due to declining TFR but to expand the workforce - the numbers of 100,000 (2008) is just too big to justify using declining TFR. Also, when you import an adult, you're compensating for lower TFR of 20-30 years ago when that adult should have been born in Singapore - our TFR was about 1.7 to 1.8 during that time. By expanding the workforce so rapidly in the last 10 years, we have a even bigger ageing workforce to replace in 2030 .....the PAP worsened the original problem through its liberal immigration policy now tells us that it needs to import people to fix it! For the last 20 years productivity in USA has been rising and real wages has remain stagnant. This is known as the wage-productivity gap. Where did all the money go when productivity of workers go up? In a society where income inequality is very high, it goes to the top management as excessive compensation packages.

City will celebrate their first title in 44 years

Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany hails' crazy win: it was the best, but never again this way please Vincent Kompany described Manchester City’s injury-time title triumph as a ‘miracle’ after the most dramatic ending to a Premier League season

clear

I Love You

boy to girl:thank you so much hon!! I enjoy every single moment to be with you..I'm Happy that you are my gf and I Love You!!

girl to boy: am also happy bein wid you hon,,u are ONE in a million in dis planet..am so blessed for havin you in my life! i love you too..

You only need one person

You only need one person” my high school cross country coach once told me. At the time I thought she was referring to her – my coach whose job it was to guide me, teach me, keep me motivated, and remind me to stay focused. Turns out she meant me; I was the only person I needed.

I didn’t quite get her life lesson until much later in life and I’ve been relearning it and going through the lesson repeatedly ever since.

You only need one person – one person to believe in you, one person to push you, one person to stand up for you when others don’t. I get her lesson now. I have to be that one person because if I can’t be this one person to me than I can’t expect others to. More importantly though, I shouldn’t need to depend or expect others to join me in this role in my life so when it happens it’s should be respected, appreciated and regarded as pure bonus.

They support me but only as far as they can understand and grasp what it is they’re supporting. That’s where I need me to believe in me.

We all need this one person; we all need to be that one person to ourselves.

So to those who continually believe in me and in what I’m doing, thank you. From the bottom of my heart thank you. I can’t help but feel like I’ve let you down with my official record but I know that it’s one thing to talk it’s a whole different thing to do, to do what I do, and nobody can ever take that away from me.
I believe in me. I believe in what I stand for and in what I’m doing. I am the one person I need and everyone else is pure bonus.

be free

godfather

nose pain

fall in love, yet again.

fate

girl

miss you love

I'm gonna do what I have to do in order to get back to the people who are important to m

In 2003, 27-year-old Colorado native Aron Ralston was rock-climbing in Bluejohn Canyon in Utah when he accidentally set loose an 800-pound rock.

Trapped with only a liter of water, no jacket and a small, dull knife, Ralston realized what he'd have to do.

"It was a conversation I had out loud with myself. You're gonna have to cut your arm off, Aron. 'I don't want to cut my arm off.' Dude, you're gonna have to cut your arm off," he told CBS News.

Ralston considered suicide, but ultimately chose to break his own bones, cut off his own arm, rappel down a 60-foot cliff, then hike seven miles before being rescued by a helicopter that his mom had sent out.

"This is something I would not have believed that I was capable of doing. If you had told me eight years ago that I would do this, I wouldn't have believed it," he told CBS.

Rather than an animal instinct to survive, Ralston says he simply did what he had to do to see his loved ones again.

"Really it was a very simple thing, like, 'I'm gonna do what I have to do in order to get back to the people who are important to me,'" he said.

We'd want to see our loved ones again too

alien

less is good

less is good.

crab mentality

you're really such a nice and kindhearted man..appreciate it so much..though we are not same race, you cared and listened..it is just so sad sometimes that people of your own race are the one whose pulling you down., "crab mentality"?

Happiness

Happiness is a mental state of well-being characterized by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.[1] A variety of biological, psychological, religious, and philosophical approaches have striven to define happiness and identify its sources.

humans seem happiest when they have
Pleasure (tasty foods, warm baths, etc.),
Engagement (or flow, the absorption of an enjoyed yet challenging activity),
Relationships (social ties have turned out to be extremely reliable indicator of happiness),
Meaning (a perceived quest or belonging to something bigger), and
Accomplishments (having realized tangible goals).

The Chinese Confucian thinker Mencius, who 2300 years ago sought to give advice to the ruthless political leaders of the warring states period, was convinced that the mind played a mediating role between the "lesser self" (the physiological self) and the "greater self" (the moral self) and that getting the priorities right between these two would lead to sage-hood. He argued that if we did not feel satisfaction or pleasure in nourishing one's "vital force" with "righteous deeds", that force would shrivel up (Mencius,6A:15 2A:2). More specifically, he mentions the experience of intoxicating joy if one celebrates the practice of the great virtues, especially through music.[7]

youth

i spent and gave my 'youth' in the company...

hahaha and even i lost alot in monetary terms,i never regret as i learnt who are real colleagues and at the same time frds to me.

i learnt alot in motherhood,enjoying with the babies and those preggy even im not a mother.Lol :)

Letting go and Leaving is always painful especially when u have bonding at the place and with the ppl ard you but it will left you with many sweet memories.

i thank God that i got to know you as my frd and colleague and i enjoyed those times working with you..

tears

I always feel that when one decide to leave the company, it feels like leaving a part of your soul behind coz no matter how shitty things can become sometimes, you will still feel like leaving a part of you being in this little family.

It's an emo decision, I took 6 yrs to realize that I am probably worth more than what I should get.

So i guess Mitch and me know how you feel totally.

I remembered every bit and was thankful that I was once part of the family.

It's a place where you probably feel that the satisfaction cannot sometimes be measured by money terms.

But of coz if you ask me, I have learnt a lot from there. Learnt to be strong, learnt to read btw the fine line of who are frens and who treads on others being frens.

Learnt that sometimes one have to let go to attain better other things in life. So matter how Marg, let the beautiful remain in your heart to form a part of "once upon a time", where when you look back it's gonna bring upon a smile on your face.

girl

life is short,

those little things matter much

anger

There once was a young boy with a very bad temper. The boy's father wanted to teach him a lesson, so he gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper he must hammer a nail into their wooden fence.

On the first day of this lesson, the little boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. He was really mad!

Over the course of the next few weeks, the little boy began to control his temper, so the number of nails that were hammered into the fence dramatically decreased.

It wasn't long before the little boy discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Then, the day finally came when the little boy didn't lose his temper even once, and he became so proud of himself, he couldn't wait to tell his father.

Pleased, his father suggested that he now pull out one nail for each day that he could hold his temper.

Several weeks went by and the day finally came when the young boy was able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

Very gently, the father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence.

"You have done very well, my son," he smiled, "but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same."

The little boy listened carefully as his father continued to speak.

"When you say things in anger, they leave permanent scars just like these. And no matter how many times you say you're sorry, the wounds will still be there."

being happy

1. Define Happiness.
To come up with the definition above, I’ve interviewed nearly 100 people in a series that I called the Happiness Project. I read books on happiness, and I attended self-improvement seminars on happiness. The distilled version that you see now seems like a no-brainer, but ask yourself a simple question — are you following it?
2. Appreciate Now.
Whenever I’m in the moment, and I’m really present to what I’m feeling, seeing, hearing, or doing, I experience a sense of euphoria. It isn’t often that in our fast paced society we are able to stop ourselves from thinking about the future, or dwelling over the past, so a nice dose of now is a refreshing change.
3. Improve Yourself.
Did you know that a shark must constantly be moving forward to circulate water through it’s gills in order to stay alive? They even move forward while they’re sleeping. Metaphorically speaking, we humans have a similar problem. If we don’t move forward physically, mentally, and spiritually, we become weak, stupid, or broken. Our obligation to ourselves is to improve.
4. Become Accountable.
“I don’t have to answer to no one.” — Have you ever heard someone proudly state that phrase? It may be true, you might only have to be accountable to yourself and no one else, but it may not be the best way to live, not necessarily. When you make yourself accountable to someone else, by telling them your goals and desires, they can keep on top of you and make sure you get things done. This will enable you to get to your goals more efficiently, raise your self-esteem, and create joy in your accomplishments.
5. Don’t Become, Just Be.
If your constantly thinking into some future where you can be happy, you’ll be in the habit of trying to be happy. If you are trying to do something, you are doing it, you’re trying to do it. Instead, if you just become happy with your current situation, you can be happy any time and place.
“When you’re working on being happy, you are the type of person that created the possibility that you are not currently happy.”
~Roger Smith (Landmark Education)

Highest-Paid Asian Leaders

1. Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister, Singapore
Annual Salary: $1.65 million

The Prime Minister of Singapore just took a salary cut of a whopping 36 percent, but he still makes a basic salary of $1.65 million (S$2.2 million).

2. Donald Tsang, Chief Executive, Hong Kong
Annual Salary: $550,000

The salary of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong would probably be causing a few eyes to roll in Beijing.

3. Julia Gillard, Prime Minister of Australia
Annual Salary: $495,000

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard just got a significant 31 percent pay hike, taking her salary to $355,000 per year.


4. Yoshihiko Noda, Prime Minister of Japan
Annual Salary: $316,000

Japan's Yoshihiko Noda makes an annual salary of $316,000, according to The Asahi Shimbun newspaper. If you add in the regional allowance of 18 percent, he makes around $384,000 per year.

5. John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand
Annual Salary: $310,000

Fifth on the list is the Prime Minister of New Zealand, John Key.

He takes home an annual salary of around $310,000, according to the Wall Street Journal. Impressive for some, but probably not for Mr Key.

6. Ma Ying-jeou, President of Taiwan
Annual Salary: $184,000

Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou rakes in a salary of $184,000 per year.

The Hong Kong-born, U.S.-educated lawyer has played an instrumental role in improving cross-strait relations.

7. Lee Myung-bak, President of South Korea
Annual Salary: $162,000

Keeping tensions under control on the Korea peninsula is no easy task.

Lee Myung-bak's annual salary which is set to rise to $162,000 this year, according to the Chosun Ilbo newspaper, from $156,000 in 2011, puts him at 7th place amongst Asia's top paid politicians.

However, Mr. Lee clearly isn't in the job for the money. Shortly after he was elected president, the former CEO of Hyundai Construction & Engineering pledged to donate his full salary to the underprivileged during his five-year term.


8. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of Indonesia
Annual Salary: $124,000

President Yudhoyono, the leader behind Indonesia's newfound status as Asia's "economic golden child", pulls in $124,000 a year.

This sum amounts to over 25 times the country's GDP per capita, according to The Economist.